Mardon Down 6 Clearance Cairn
Photo taken on 26-01-2018
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & Cairns
OS Map: SX 76733 87587
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV12768
Alternate name: Mardon Down 6
Short Name: CN Mardon 6
Grinsell: MORETONHAMPSTEAD 1a
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Grinsell
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 3.7 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 76733 87587
Nearby sites: SX 76733 87587
Notes
A small circular mound of stones measuring 4.7 metres in diameter, which is rather small for a sepulchral cairn, and more likely to be associated with clearance, perhaps of a date later than the larger cairns. However, if so, then it is the only recorded example in the vicinity and unusual for that reason. N.B. Extending Butlers 1-5 PDW is numbering this 6.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, A Stone Circle and Cairn Group on Mardon Down, Moretonhampstead, Devon An Earthwork Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2017)